US President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands during a transition planning meeting in the Oval Office at the White House.

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World chess champion Magnus Carlsen looks through a virtual reality viewer during a news conference ahead of the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York City.

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Demonstrators gather to protest a day after President-elect Donald Trump's victory, at a rally outside Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles, California.

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Men are handcuffed after they were detained by police during a police anti-illegal drugs operation in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines

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A protester confronts police as protesters shut down the 101 Freeway, a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles, following a rally to protest a day after President-elect Donald Trump's election. Protesters burned a giant orange-haired head of Donald Trump in effigy, lit fires ins the streets and blocked traffic lanes late on November 9 as rage over the billionaire's election victory spilled onto the streets of US cities. From New York to Los Angeles, thousands of people in around 10 cities rallied against the president-elect a day after his stunning win, some carrying signs declaiming "Not our President" and "Love trumps hate."

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An Iraqi soldier fires a RPG in Karamah, south of Mosul, Iraq

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A banner with an image of Donald Trump promotes an exhibition titled; "Trump: A wall of caricatures," surrounded by papel picado, or intricately-cut tissue paper, with Day of the Dead designs, inside the Caricature Museum in downtown Mexico City. The exhibition, which features dozens of works by Mexican and international cartoonists, mocks amongst other things the president-elect's derogatory statements about Mexicans and his plans to build a wall between the two countries.

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Children play in Qayara, some 50 kilometers south of Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi troops consolidated gains in their advance on the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, regrouping as they clear neighborhoods and houses once occupied by the Islamic State group.

An opposition supporter wearing a costume and a placard that reads "Bullets no, food yes" lies on the floor in front of riot policemen during a rally against President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela

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Felix, a 10-year-old male polar bear, inspects a pumpkin, a watermelon with an image depicting Donald Trump, vegetables mixed with meat and fish - the gained treats for predicting the winner of U.S. presidential election at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

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A rainbow appears over the Palatine Hill, above the Roman Forum, in Rome.

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Riders and their horses of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna perform a dress rehearsal for the media at the SSE Arena in London, Britain

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A Syrian woman carries a child while on the way from areas controlled by jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group, en route to safety in areas held by by Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance.

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A cabbage is seen at Augustenberg Botanical Roof Garden in Malmo, Sweden

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A man carrying a box of lanterns at a lantern workshop in a village in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei province.
China's courier services are planning ahead to cope with Singles' Day, an annual e-commerce shopping spree in China that falls on November 11, state media reported.

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Syrian children sit during class a barn that has been converted into a makeshift school to teach internally displaced children from areas under government control, in a rebel-held area of Daraa, in southern Syria.